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Unemployment and Revolution - 1981 analysis of why unemployment occurs under capitalism. Many references to the particular conditions in Australia at the time - unemployment had reached its highest level since WW2 and there had been much debate in the media about the need for everyone to "tighten their belts" etc.

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   First published  in  August 1981 as an"Australian Political Economy       
   Movement" conference paper. 
   (Adelaide 8-9 August.1981)

   Republished subsequently by the Red Eureka Movement. 


   Part 7 was written one year after the original document.



                          CONTENTS


(A)  Brief Synopsis



Part 1:  What is "unemployment"?


Other Societies

Science Fiction


Part 2:  What "normally" causes unemployment?


The Labour Market

The Unemployment Pool

Changes in the Level of Unemployment



Part 3:  What regulates unemployment?


What Do the Unemployed Actually Do?

How Unemployment Regulates Wages

Booms and Busts

Wages and Class Struggle

Union Solidarity

Arbitration and Wage Indexation

Capital Accumulation

Technological Change

Job Creation and Destruction



Part 4:   Technological unemployment


Is It Technological?

"Controlling" Technology



Part 5:  "Cyclical" Unemployment


Anarchy of Production

Planning and Money

Profitability

Overproduction

Are Wages Too High?

Stimulating Demand

Economic Crisis



Part 6:   Solutions


"Giving Fraser the Razor"

Blowing Up the Balloon

Fine Tuning

Political Facts

Shorter Hours and Higher Pay

Expanding the Public Sector

Workers' Co-operatives

Labor to Power with Socialist Policies?

Economic Consequences of Statism

Protectionism

"Militant Struggle"

Revolutionary Optimism




Part 7:   Revolution

           

            We Need a Program

Expropriating Big Business

Central Planning

Labour Policy

The Struggle for Control

Socialist Management

Investment Planning


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